HAITI: Private Contractors ‘Like Vultures Coming to Grab the Loot’

By Anthony Fenton VANCOUVER, Canada, Feb 19, 2010 (IPS) – Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging “shock doctrine” for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporations, the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), is co-organising a “Haiti summit” which [...]

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Another Soldier Dies at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) In San Antonio

Our country really takes care of its soldiers (tongue-in-cheek). There have been other and similar stories like this – this one just caught my eye this evening and I’m tired of seeing them. So many “mysterious” deaths. Drug mix-ups, overdoses/overmedication, lack of proper care and attention, transmission of infectious diseases, such as AIDS, due to [...]

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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

I was watching the DVD this afternoon and thought I’d share… I know you can find it on the Internet (I pulled this one from Googlevideo), but another copy will not hurt. It always makes me wonder why G. W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney are not in court and/or prison. For years I [...]

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Who is the Real Terrorist? Why the U.S. Government of Course…

From George Washington’s Blog Is the U.S. the World’s Largest State Sponsor of Terrorism? Preface: As someone who was born in America and has lived here my whole life, and who loves the ideals and Constitution our country was founded on, it has been a rude and painful awakening to learn about my government’s terrorist [...]

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Ron Paul: March to War in Lebanon?

Statement on H Res 1194, “Reaffirming the support of the House of Representatives for the legitimate, democratically-elected Government of Lebanon under Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.” May 20, 2008 March to War in Lebanon? Madam Speaker I rise in opposition to H. Res. 1194 because it is dangerously interventionist and will likely lead to more rather [...]

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Winter Soldier 2008

Last weekend, March 13-16, hundreds of U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan met in Silver Springs, Maryland to testify about and against the wars being fought. The four day event was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War and the event was patterned after the 1971 Winter Soldier hearings organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against [...]

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The Ruthless American Empire

From the blog LiberalPro I cannot watch the news on television anymore. I am tired of the lies told baldly to my face and the “spin” put on everything that is not in the Empires best interests. That is what we are; an Empire that rules the world in order for the benefit of The [...]

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New account sheds light on CIA disappearances and ‘black sites’

From Crimes and Corruption of the New World Order News Friday, March 14, 2008 Amnesty International today revealed in a new report further details of the cruelty and illegality of the CIA programme of secret detentions and enforced disappearances – a program re-authorized by President Bush in June 2007. The details come in the form [...]

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Stop Bush’s Unconstitutional Iraq Agreement

An email received from the American Freedom Campaign: With your participation, the American Freedom Campaign can help stop one of the most outrageous political power grabs in this nation’s history. At stake is not only our Constitution, but also the lives of Americans. Please continue reading this alert and then take immediate action by clicking [...]

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The Iraq Project

by Paul Rogers The United States’s military and political ambition in Iraq is enormous and undiminished 31 – 01 – 2008 George W Bush’s eighth and last state-of-the-union address on 28 January 2008 was mainly concerned with the economy and other domestic issues, but he still devoted nearly a quarter of the speech to the [...]

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